Brain Boosters
What has to be broken before you can use it?
Egg
If you take 2 apples from a basket of 5, how many apples do you have?
2
7 + (- 3) = ?
4
You see me once in June, twice in November, but not at all in May. What am I?
The letter "e"
I am a number between 1 and 10. Multiply me by myself, subtract 2, and you get 14. What am I?
4
You are in a race and pass the person in 3rd place. What place are you in?
3rd
Simplify 1/2 + 1/3
5/6
I'm tall when I'm young and short when I'm old. What am I?
A candle
What comes once a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
The letter "m"
If there are 6 fish in a tank and 2 drown, how many are left?
6 - fish don't drown.
Find the area of a rectangle with length 4 and width 5.
20
Cut a cake into 8 equal pieces using only 3 straight cuts. How?
Two cuts in a cross, then one horizontal cut through the middle.
7
I am thinking of a number. It's even, greater than 10, less than 20, and divisible by 3. What's the number?
12 or 18
? + 8 = 19
11
A farmer has to cross a river with a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage. He can only carry one at a time. How?
Goat → back → wolf → goat back → cabbage → goat